[swagonomixxx]

Article is paywalled.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. I for one like the fact that I can easily manage my subscriptions from inside the settings app. I cancel a subscription, and I'm guaranteed not to get double charged again. It's as easy as pie.

With every Tom Dick and Harry app linking to their own subscription and payment system, this already becomes incredibly more complex for the consumer (in this case, me).

I have already been avoiding using apps that require me to sign up manually (i.e without the "Log in with Apple" option) because it's simply inconvenient and I know one day or another each of these websites will be compromised, my e-mail leaked, as well as other payment processing info.

This just fragments the ecosystem even more and I'm quite happy to avoid such applications and stick to those that use Apple for payment processing and subscription management (if these are only the Apple related apps, e.g music, TV, etc., so be it).

[dgellow]

Apple payment option won’t disappear. You will still be able to pay extra for that specific provider. But now, by offering other service providers, we can finally let users pick what they prefer, and the Apple payment 30% fees should become obvious. Currently Netflix is 30% more expensive on iPad because of Apple subscription fees and the company is not allowed to communicate that info to users, or link to other payment options. Hopefully competition should bring some transparency as users can now arbitrage.

Everybody but Apple should benefit from this.

[DisjointedHunt]

How do you use browsers today ?